Transverse electron momentum distribution in tunneling and over the barrier ionization by laser pulses with varying ellipticity

• DOI: 10.1038/srep19002
• Publication Date: 2016-01-07T10:40:36Z
• Authors: I. A. Ivanov; A. S. Kheifets; J. E. Calvert; S. Goodall; X. Wang; Han Xu; A. J. Palmer; D. Kielpinski; I. V. Litvinyuk; R. T. Sang
• Keywords: Momentum (technical analysis)

Abstract We study transverse electron momentum distribution in strong field atomic ionization driven by laser pulses with varying ellipticity. show, both experimentally and theoretically, that the tunneling over barrier regimes evolves a qualitatively different way when ellipticity parameter describing polarization state of driving pulse increases.